Donald Trump did another one of his combo 2020 campaign rallies/Two Minute Hate segments in Elko, Nevada today, where Republican Dean Heller is campaigning against Democrat “Whacky” (Trump’s sobriquet) Jacky Rosen. Trump loves nicknames and even polled the crowd on what he should call Joe Biden.
Trump is polling the crowd on which nickname for Biden is better, "Sleepy Joe" or "1% Joe." He gleefully notes that a woman suggested "Creepy Joe," then adds, as he does, "I would never do that. I would never insult him like that."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 20, 2018
If there’s a quantitative difference between Creepy Joe and Crooked Hillary, I don’t see it. Trump continued to bounce off the walls.
Trump lies that California residents are "rioting" in protest of sanctuary city immigration laws: "They're rioting now. They want to get out of their sanctuary cities."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 20, 2018
This is one of Trump’s more bold faced lies, ever. A riot is a rather large and significant event, they’re a little hard to miss. The fact that he’s saying riots plural when there hasn’t been a one, much less one today (“they’re rioting now”) can only be classified as vintage Trump. That lie was the biggest and the worst, but there were plenty of other noteworthy fibs and outright fabrications.
"FORTY-FOUR YEARS," Trump continues to lie about Veterans Choice. "So we're pretty good at getting things approved. We're pretty good at getting things approved." He goes on to tell his usual story about how he independently thought of this idea.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 20, 2018
What’s interesting here is that 44 years encompasses the terms of four other Republican presidents, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II, so with this lie, Trump is reigning supreme over his own party as well as the opposition. Nobody but nobody could do it except him. And then he made a fantastic statement about approval ratings.
Trump talking extensively about immigration and crime: "The casualties in the Democrats' open borders crusade are really: a lot."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 20, 2018
Trump says he is creating the Space Force "'cause this is where it's at" (space).
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 20, 2018
"America is respected again. I was at the United Nations, and the leaders of the countries were coming up to me, countries that couldn't have cared less, and they're saying, 'I must tell you Mr. President, America is respected again.'"
People literally laughed at him at the UN.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 20, 2018
This is the fantasy life of a lunatic, folks, but unfortunately you and I are involved. But not forever. Hopefully, not for very much longer.
Thankfully President Obama will be at UNLV on Monday for GOTV. He will wash the stink away.